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#01Nov 6, 2026

cs.AI

Can Agentic Systems Close the Gap in Radiology with Production AI Tools?

Aubin Charley, Julien Khlaut, Charles Corbière and 3 more

Radiology AI has developed along two paths: specialized models that perform well on narrow tasks but cover few clinical findings, and generalist models that address a broader range of tasks but remain prone to hallucination and inaccurate measurements. Combining the two through agentic systems offers a route towards comprehensive radiology reporting, but published systems are tied to one modality or body part. We describe a radiology agentic framework that standardizes how an orchestrator calls modular tools to produce a structured report, and use it to measure what such a system can do with the tools from FDA-cleared radiology AI devices. Report generation is simulated on a large multi-modality report corpus, with the orchestrator given either a catalog of finding classes consolidated from the cleared devices, each available on the modalities it is cleared for, or an unlimited catalog in which any class can be requested, and planning either from the clinical indication or from the target report. Tool outputs are simulated from the reference report, so the comparison isolates tool availability and orchestration from tool error. With the cleared catalog and the indication alone, the orchestrator recovers under a third of the clinically actionable findings; recovery improves substantially with the unlimited catalog, and further when the plan is written from the target report. Attributing every missed finding to a cause shows that most are classes no cleared device offers for the study's modality, and that a third are classes or tools that were offered and not called. Adding the most frequently missing tools closes most of the gap to the unlimited catalog on held-out reports, whereas a smaller orchestrator with the unlimited catalog gives up the whole gain. Tool availability and effective orchestration are thus complementary constraints on comprehensive AI-assisted radiology reporting.

#02Nov 6, 2026

cs.CV

FlowMoP: Stochastic Multi-Person Motion Prediction

Aadya Agrawal, Ho Kei Cheng, Alexander Schwing

Predicting the future motion of multiple people is inherently stochastic: the same observed history admits many plausible continuations depending on intent, coordination, and social context. Yet the dominant paradigm in multi-person 3D motion prediction remains deterministic, with existing methods producing a fixed number of outputs per agent. In contrast, we present a conditional flow matching framework that jointly generates diverse future motions for multiple agents, modeling both global trajectories and root-relative poses. A B-spline reparameterization compresses the generative state space while enforcing temporal smoothness, and a dual-stream transformer conditions each agent's predictions on observed neighbor motion for interaction-aware forecasting. Our method achieves state-of-the-art performance on CMU-Mocap (UMPM) and 3DPW, outperforming deterministic baselines on joint position error, pose error, and final displacement error despite producing a full predictive distribution. We additionally establish the first motion prediction baseline on WorldPose, a large-scale professional soccer dataset, where social conditioning demonstrably concentrates predictive uncertainty along interaction-constrained directions.

#03Nov 6, 2026

cs.CV

BEV3SR: Evidence-Aware 3D Spatial Reasoning from Video

Fan Zhu, Rui Yu

3D spatial reasoning from video remains challenging for VLMs because videos provide sequential, view-local observations rather than persistent metric scene records. Many questions must be answered in a query-specified perspective rather than the observed camera viewpoint, and prompting with a fixed set of RGB views may miss sparse or occluded visual cues. To address these gaps, we introduce BEV3SR, a training-free and backbone-agnostic framework for RGB-D videos with camera parameters. BEV3SR turns video observations into queryable metric bird's-eye-view (BEV) scene memory and formalizes each query into an evidence-aware spatial task. The Spatial Task Formalizer specifies the query's reference frame, spatial constraints, objective, and evidence requirement. The evidence requirement determines the appropriate reasoning pathway. A query treated as requiring geometric evidence is handled by the Geometric Reasoner, which deterministically computes the answer using the metric BEV records in the query-specified reference frame. Otherwise, a query treated as requiring visual evidence is passed to the Visual Evidence Aligner, which uses BEV-indexed object records and their associated supporting views to retrieve object-consistent and scene-context RGB frames for VLM grounding. Within a standard 16-frame budget, BEV3SR consistently improves different VLM backbones across multiple 3D scene QA benchmarks, delivering large gains on spatially intensive questions and significant improvements on open-ended scene QA. These results demonstrate that BEV3SR offers an effective, efficient, and interpretable framework for explicit 3D spatial reasoning from video.

#04Nov 6, 2026

cs.AI

CPU-ARC: Agentic Reasoning Caching for on-CPU Reasoning Reuse

Peter Belcak, Greg Heinrich, Saurav Muralidharan and 2 more

Large language models reinvent the wheel all the time. They conflate task-solving with the execution of the solutions, which forces them to solve every problem from scratch. We show that once a task has been reasoned through, the application of its solution to a new problem instance can be done very efficiently and with little involvement from language models. We introduce agentic reasoning caching, a method for constructing robust CPU-executable agentic reasoning caches (ARCs) from LLM reasoning traces. ARCs show on-par performance with frontier LLMs across a range of difficult mathematical and scientific tasks, are fully explainable, continually trainable, robust to input perturbations, and 16-291x cheaper to invoke than the source model.

#05Nov 6, 2026

cs.LG

Fifty-Two Shades of Pig: What the UCR Archive Really Asks Classifiers to Do

Omar Swelam, Jaris Küken, Shi Bin Hoo and 2 more

The pigs were bleeding. That was the point of the experiment: could airway pressure reveal hemorrhage before it became critical? In the UCR Time Series Classification Archive, the de facto benchmark for Time Series Classification (TSC), the same recordings ask a different question: "which of 52 pigs produced this trace?". The dataset PigAirwayPressure is not an outlier. Although the archive is the standard benchmark, whether its tasks resemble the problems TSC is meant to solve has rarely been examined. We find that several datasets are repurposed from their original task, built from toy setups, or have flawed test splits. We further question how representative the archive's ordered non-temporal sequences (e.g. spectra, shape outlines) are of real TSC, and the potential downsides from the decomposition of multivariate problems. Our findings call for more careful interpretation of archive-wide scores and greater attention to deployment-relevant evaluation. The audit is at https://github.com/automl/ucr-provenance-audit.